Shoals Area Freqs

[metservices]

What are the "main" - Shoals area Freqs that most eveyone listens too in Lauderdale and Colbert Counties - it would be nice to have a list from those who actually use\listen to the freqs and maybe the type of equip you use too??? I am considering buying new equipment - or reprogram what I have if it works - going to set it up and try it out - from prelim tests it seems to work ok. (Rad-Shack Pro-2006) - then again who knows if it will stay up very long it has been boxed up for eight years. From the forum most everything seems to be encrypted or trunked - what's left that is worth listening to?? - Thanks! JSS

 

[KU4WW]

JSS, here's some quickies that keep my scanners active.

1 - 120.800 Muscle Shoals Airport
2 - 151.085 Cherokee VFD/Rescue
3 - 154.220 Colbert County Fire Net
4 - 154.445 Florence Fire Dept.
5 - 154.845 Lauderdale County SO
6 - 155.340 Area Hospitals
7 - 155.880 Lauderdale County EMA
8 - 156.700 Marine Ch. 14
9 - 156.800 Marine Ch. 16
10 - 156.900 Marine Ch. 18
11 - 157.100 Marine Ch. 22A
12 - 158.850 Colbert County SO
13 - 159.315 Alabama Forestry
14 - 159.465 Alabama Game Warden
15 - 160.140 Air Evac (Tower in Corinth for AE16 Tuscumbia and AE58 Corinth)
16 - 451.250 Sheffield Utilities
17 - 453.100 Lauderdale County Fire Net
18 - 453.150 Colbert County Road Dept.
19 - 460.100 Florence PD
20 - 460.125 Florence PD
21 - 460.150 Florence PD
22 - 460.175 Florence PD
23 - 460.350 Muscle Shoals PD
24 - 460.475 Tuscumbia PD
25 - 460.500 Sheffield PD

There are several more for me. I live in west Colbert County and listen to MS counties also. Hope this helps.

Jeff D.

 

[aa4vr]

Shoals area freqs

JSS, here are a few more frequencies to keep your scanner busy.
These are not in Lauderdale or Colbert Co. but easily received there.
155.955- Franklin County Sheriff (sometimes encrypted)
154.785- Franklin County Sheriff's net/ Phil Campbell P.D.
154.370- Franklin County Fire Net
155.130- Russellville P.D.
460.275- Wayne Co. TN. Sheriff
In Lauderdale/Colbert. Co.
155.010= State Net
155.505- State Police Quad Cities Post
155.235- Ambulance Service
155.100- Lauderdale EMA
156.225- Lauderdale Road Dept.
154.400- Sheffield Fire
154.725- Rogersville P.D.
155.700- Tuscumbia Fire
123.050- Muscle Shoals Air Traffic
460.2625- Muscle Shoals P.D. Channel #2
452.675- UNA Police
464.975 UNA Maintenance, Etc.
461.050- ECM Hospital Security/Maintenance
417.650- TVA Maintenance
This is some of the stuff I have programmed.
Rick- AA4Vr

 

[KU4WW]

Tnx Rick. I clean forgot about the AST and the State Net. Got some more good one's in your list too. Take care.

73 Jeff/KU4WW

 

[KU4WW]

Rick, I wonder what TVA Police operate on? Do they use repeaters? Thanks.

Jeff/KU4WW

 

[RadioJonD]

Although I don't keep all of these scanning at any given time, here is what is in my Pro-97 "Home" bank. A very stripped down version resides in my vehicle scanner. My vehicle and home scanner(s) also contain MS & TN freqs. The Pro-97 also has TN-MS-AL "blend" bank for traveling.

01- DPS-1 car 159.030000
02- DPS-2 car 155.445000
03- DPS-3 155.505000
04- N-E-L-E 155.475000
05- DPS- 1 / 5 158.790000
06- DPS- 2 / 6 154.920000
07- DPS Spl-Dtl 158.212500
08- DPS extenders 859.487500
09- AL Net 155.010000
10- ABC 154.770000
11- AL-DOT 151.055000
12- AL-DOT 151.130000
13- AL-DOT 151.010000
14- Marine Ch-14 156.700000
15- TN Southern RR 160.755000
16- Marine Ch-16 156.800000
17- N-S RR Road 160.950000
18- N-S RR Dispatch 160.245000
19- N-S RR Train 160.830000
20- Air Emergency 243.000000
21- Air Emergency 121.500000
22- Marine Ch-22A 157.100000
23- KMSL 123.050000
24- ZME / HSV 120.800000
25- ZME / HSV 307.000000
26- AFC input 151.325000
27- AFC Florence 159.315000
28- AL VFDs 453.750000
29- (withheld)
30- Cherokee VFD 151.085000
31- Cherokee VFD in 154.010000
32- Cherokee H2o/Gas 451.100000
33- Colbert CO SO 158.850000
34- Colbert Fire Net 154.220000
35- Sheffield Util 451.250000
36- Sheffield Util 451.025000
37- Sheffield PD 460.500000
38- Sheffield PD 452.100000
39- Sheffield PD 452.400000
40- Sheffield PD 460.625000
41- Sheffield FD 154.400000
42- Muscle Shoals PD 460.350000
43- Muscle Shoals PD 460.262500
44- Muscle Shoals PD 460.437500
45- Muscle Shoals FD 155.340000
46- Hellen Keller 155.235000
47- Tuscumbia PD 460.475000
48- Tuscumbia FD 155.700000
49- Colbert EMA 453.600000
50- Colbert Med 453.075000
51- Colbert Rd 453.150000
52- HWY 247 VFD 154.130000
53- LaGrange VFD 154.175000
54- Leighton LG 154.995000
55- Littleville PD 154.875000
56- Littleville FD 155.040000
57- New Bethel VFD 154.280000
58- Spring Valley FD 154.310000
59- Colbert Heights 154.325000
60- Lauderdale SO 154.845000
61- Florence PD 1 460.100000
62- Florence PD 2 460.125000
63- Florence PD 3 460.150000
64- Florence PD 4 460.175000
65- Florence PD 5 (withheld)
66- Florence PD 6 (withheld)
67- FPD Net Relay 458.500000
68- Florence FD 154.445000
69- Lauderdale 911 152.007500
70- Lauderdale 911 453.975000
71- Lauderdale RS 155.295000
72- Lauderdale VFDs 453.100000
73- Lauderdale LE 154.725000
74- Lauderdale LE 155.880000
75- Lauderdale EMA 155.100000
76- Lauderdale EMA 158.895000
77- Lauderdale EMA 155.175000
78- Lauderdale EMA 155.265000
79 - Lauderdale EMA 155.295000
80- Lauderdale EMA 453.875000
81- Anderson VFD 453.300000
82- Center Star VFD 453.200000
83- Cloverdale VFD 453.125000
84- Elgin VFD 453.700000
85- Greenhill VFD 154.205000
86- Killen LG 453.025000
87- Lexington 155.805000
88- Rogersville PD 155.085000
89- Rogersville EMS 453.561250
90- Rogersville RS 155.325000
91- St Florian PD 154.860000
92- U-P VFD 460.575000
93- Killen/C. Star 453.787500
94- Rogersville 453.562500
95- Zip City VFD 460.050000
96- Franklin CO SO 155.955000
97- Franklin CO VFDs 154.370000
98- Russellville PD 155.130000
99- Russellville FD 153.800000

Another freq in my home scanner is Vulcan Materials Cherokee - 461.175. As I live near them, I like to know when they blast rock!

Channels in my non-alpha tagged scanners tend to correspond to channel numbers or county prifix #s for "have quicks". For instance, Colbert SO is programmed in channel 20, Franklin in 33, etc.

Jeff, TVA Police are digital and encrypted.

Rick, 417.650 is, more specifically, TVA Wilson Hydro Operations. Did you hear them go into emergency mode and evacuate everyone to the eighth floor about three weeks ago? I think this might have been a test.

 

[SCPD]

rdio Jon D how commonly used are the VHF AL DOT freqs I thoought I heard them also around montgomery thurs or friday using VTac1 with PL of 210.7 either having to do with I-65 construction on I-65 or the bridge inspection in Tallasee

 

[Steve]

Paul,

Unless something has changed you should hear ALDOT Montgomery on 151.130 tone 210.7(I think). Either in May or June this year I heard ALDOT Montgomery using 151.130 and 151.070. I wrote the date and tones used down but I can't find them now. I know here over on this side of the State, the VHF frequencies are a good bit. 156.195 (179.9) is used by the Hollins Crossroad office every day. Check the list that Jason (Kingpin) posted sometime back, it appears to be pretty accurate.


Steve
KD4LCY
KAF9087

 

[RadioJonD]

rdaio Jon D how commonly used are the VHF AL DOT freqs I thoought I heard them also around montgomery thurs or riday using VTac1 with PL of 210.5 either having 2 with I-65 construction or the bridge inspection in Tallasee

In District Two of Northwest Alabama, AL-DOT uses:

151.055 - Simplex
151.130 - Repeater (automated bridge conditions during Winter weather)
151.010 - Simplex Unit to Unit / Construction Zone traffic details

Some urban areas have repeaters on other frequencies as needed but to my understanding 151.130 is used statewide with different tones.

Although most DOT supervisors have Southern Linc, the guys on the pavement (pun intended) use VHF a good bit. For crews working outdoors, the base keeps them up to date on weather conditions when storms approach.

Winter weather will most certainly bring about more activity on these frequencies.

 

[SCPD]

rdio Jon D how commonly used are the VHF AL DOT freqs I thoought I heard them also around montgomery thurs or friday using VTac1 with PL of 210.5 either having 2 with I-65 construction or the bridge inspection in Tallasee

OOps the PL tone on VTAC1 was 210.7 my typo.. so it may have been AL DOT i heard

 

[SCPD]

Paul,

Unless something has changed you should hear ALDOT Montgomery on 151.130 tone 210.7(I think). Either in May or June this year I heard ALDOT Montgomery using 151.130 and 151.070. I wrote the date and tones used down but I can't find them now. I know here over on this side of the State, the VHF frequencies are a good bit. 156.195 (179.9) is used by the Hollins Crossroad office every day. Check the list that Jason (Kingpin) posted sometime back, it appears to be pretty accurate.


Steve
KD4LCY
KAF9087

Thanks Steve & Jon

 

[bee]

Thanks for posting these frequencies, for the "Shoals area". Although I am in northeast Mississippi, I am frequently in the that area.



Thanks!

 

[SAR923]

Rick, I wonder what TVA Police operate on? Do they use repeaters? Thanks.

Jeff/KU4WW

You can forget the TVA Police. I think it's a 400 MHz trunked system now but it's 100% encrypted 100% of the time.

 

[metservices]

Thanks for all the replies - I went to the Hamfest looking for the equipment mentioned in this forum none could be found that I was satisfied with so will go to the net and Rad shack - not certian my old machine will hold up after being on the shelf for eight years and would like to upgrade anyways to something that I could even use mobile - however I am told that mobile use is now illegal in Alabama ???? by a State Trooper but he could not show me the printed law. I tried to find it online. Oh well - thanks for all the posts - back to the drawing board - JSS

 

[Steve]

JSS,

Unless something has changed in the past 2 years, I think the Trooper was bluffing you.
When I left/retired from the Troopers back in Sept 2005, I didn't know of anything about mobile use being illegal. If mobile use is now illegal then I will be under the jail. My car is the proverbial pin cushion with all of my antennas. And so far none of my Trooper friends have mentioned anything to me. If I hear anything I will pass it along.

Steve
KD4LCY
KAF9087
Retired PCO II Alabama DPS

 

[metservices]

EGO head??? I have my car full of radios too - and ears that don't stop too! JSS

I guess build the next prison on top of me - I was told to remove all my radios - but I have all my paperwork in order - and got more today from the federal level - signed by the Boss himself the pres - seems they fall in DHS too. So they fall in the local - state and federal level and will stay in the vehicle. LOL - what is funny is more radios are going in later this fall - and it is not me putting them there!!! - and a notebook full of paperwork - JSS

 

[SAR923]

The only law about scanners in Alabama is that you can't use them to assist you in commiting a crime, e.g., when acting as a lookout for drug dealers and that sort of thing. Otherwise, you can use them anywhere you please including in your car. If you run into that Trooper again, ask him what section number of the 1975 code this "prohibition" falls under. I think he's blowing smoke on this one.